Inside Out West Midlands - 18/01/2010

Mary Rhodes presents three surprising stories from right across the West Midlands. Are people in the Midlands being forced to go abroad for better, and cheaper, dental work? True grit? Mary goes behind the scenes with the gritters to find out how much longer we can cope with snow, ice and freezing temperatures? Plus historian Carl Chinn explains how a tiny object, made in Birmingham, changed the whole world.